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She understands what I'm saying but just can't comprehend how it's possible herself. – Sandra Mellott	Found on CNN 10 years ago
Sometimes I think they take my orientation as some kind of personal attack and they can get really hostile about it. – Sandra Mellott	Found on CNN 10 years ago
Before the advancement of technology I believe many who now identify as asexual knew they were somehow different from their peers but never truly understood themselves, however since the founding of AVEN and its website, many asexuals have gathered to better understand themselves. It was finally a place where you realized you weren't alone, nor were you a freak. – Ellie Carlin	Found on CNN 10 years ago
There are older asexuals as well in the community. I've found that they themselves had not realized they were asexuals until the existence of the Internet. Many of them had sexual experiences, and even had children. They seemed to think there was either something wrong with them medically, or they just figured sex wasn't as good as it was hyped to be. – Ellie Carlin	Found on CNN 10 years ago
I tried to discuss this with my sister once, and with my parents, both proceeded to make bets with me that I would change my mind someday. I put it in writing both times, they're in my dad's safe. In about nine years, it'll be fun to collect the hundred dollars. – Megan Allen	Found on CNN 10 years ago
I wish the public knew that we exist and we aren't 'sick' or 'wrong' i also wish the LGBTQ community would just get over themselves and accept us ... we're awfully isolated and little-known. – Megan Allen	Found on CNN 10 years ago
All of those bodily fluids and being in such a vulnerable position, and the diseases it could cause, and just... eww. – Megan Allen	Found on CNN 10 years ago
No one has ever tried to set me up on a date or even insinuated that there is something wrong with my desire to be single, i feel very fortunate because I know that many people face pressure to date and get married. – Heather Runyan	Found on CNN 10 years ago
For a long time I thought I was a late bloomer, i thought that I should feel attraction, but I didn't, so I felt like I was broken. When people asked, I just told them I was happy single and didn't feel the need to date. In my head, I often referred to myself as asexual, but I didn't realize that it was a valid orientation. – Heather Runyan	Found on CNN 10 years ago
We exist. That may sound simple, but too often when someone says they are asexual, the first response from others is to deny or question it, it also sends the message that there is something wrong with us. I do not need to be fixed or cured, I am asexual and that's OK. – Heather Runyan	Found on CNN 10 years ago
This is a permanent part of who I am, and I'm proud and confident about it. she understands what I'm saying but just can't comprehend how it's possible herself. – Sandra Mellott	Found on CNN 10 years ago
If we rely only on intervention, we miss the mark, prevention is what we need, and this must be a systemic approach. – Executive Director Ulester Douglas	Found on CNN 10 years ago
It's almost like a little competition for the number of likes, i think that's anxiety-ridden, because you get likes based on how many friends you have, and you have to keep posting things to get more friends and it's like a vicious circle. – Diana Graber	Found on CNN 10 years ago
I think that's anxiety-ridden, because you get likes based on how many friends you have, and you have to keep posting things to get more friends and it's like a vicious circle. – Diana Graber	Found on CNN 10 years ago
It's content by kids, but it's really meant to address topics of interest to their parents in many cases, the mission component is focused on teaching them digital literacy and citizenship while also allowing them to play with digital storytelling. – Samantha Skey	Found on CNN 10 years ago
And I found out that I am kind of neurotic about some things, for example, when I text someone and I think that I might have made them upset because they didn't reply right away, I automatically assume that they got mad at me. – Samantha Skey	Found on CNN 10 years ago
Mainstream media is portraying girls at younger ages who are mimicking the worst of obnoxious, stereotypical girl behavior ... rolling eyes, moving the hips around, being catty, so what girls are getting is that by 8 or 9, this is sort of a 'normal' way to act. – Rosalind Wiseman	Found on CNN 10 years ago
We talk about role modeling but very rarely do adults look at their own behavior and say 'What am I doing?'. – Rosalind Wiseman	Found on CNN 10 years ago
So trying out meanness is not something we can or should eradicate, it's normal to want to feel powerful and to exert influence on your environment. It's healthy. What is unhealthy is when the means by which a child does that is at the social expense of another. – Michelle Anthony	Found on CNN 10 years ago
The more meanness they see being successful or rewarded in the home or in their environment, the more children will revert to those mean behaviors themselves when faced with challenging social situations. – Michelle Anthony	Found on CNN 10 years ago
With girls, the more they watched, the more likely they were to perpetuate these behaviors so there's something about the nature of this type of behavior that girls feel comfortable perpetuating, i've argued, and many others have argued, that it's really about socialization, that as a culture, we tend to condone physical aggression with boys, and say, 'Oh that's just the way boys are' but with girls, we tell them not to do that because that's not what girls do. – Nicole Martins	Found on CNN 10 years ago
Girls have essentially been taught at a young age to be sneaky about it and this is what we are seeing in the shows that we are watching. – Nicole Martins	Found on CNN 10 years ago
People see these programs and they want that experience for themselves. – Michelle Ercanbrack	Found on CNN 10 years ago
Start with what you know and build your tree online. – Michelle Ercanbrack	Found on CNN 10 years ago

She understands what I'm saying but just can't comprehend how it's possible herself.

– Sandra Mellott

Found on CNN
10 years ago

Sometimes I think they take my orientation as some kind of personal attack and they can get really hostile about it.

– Sandra Mellott

Found on CNN
10 years ago

Before the advancement of technology I believe many who now identify as asexual knew they were somehow different from their peers but never truly understood themselves, however since the founding of AVEN and its website, many asexuals have gathered to better understand themselves. It was finally a place where you realized you weren't alone, nor were you a freak.

– Ellie Carlin

Found on CNN
10 years ago

There are older asexuals as well in the community. I've found that they themselves had not realized they were asexuals until the existence of the Internet. Many of them had sexual experiences, and even had children. They seemed to think there was either something wrong with them medically, or they just figured sex wasn't as good as it was hyped to be.

– Ellie Carlin

Found on CNN
10 years ago

I tried to discuss this with my sister once, and with my parents, both proceeded to make bets with me that I would change my mind someday. I put it in writing both times, they're in my dad's safe. In about nine years, it'll be fun to collect the hundred dollars.

– Megan Allen

Found on CNN
10 years ago

I wish the public knew that we exist and we aren't 'sick' or 'wrong' i also wish the LGBTQ community would just get over themselves and accept us ... we're awfully isolated and little-known.

– Megan Allen

Found on CNN
10 years ago

All of those bodily fluids and being in such a vulnerable position, and the diseases it could cause, and just... eww.

– Megan Allen

Found on CNN
10 years ago

No one has ever tried to set me up on a date or even insinuated that there is something wrong with my desire to be single, i feel very fortunate because I know that many people face pressure to date and get married.

– Heather Runyan

Found on CNN
10 years ago

For a long time I thought I was a late bloomer, i thought that I should feel attraction, but I didn't, so I felt like I was broken. When people asked, I just told them I was happy single and didn't feel the need to date. In my head, I often referred to myself as asexual, but I didn't realize that it was a valid orientation.

– Heather Runyan

Found on CNN
10 years ago

We exist. That may sound simple, but too often when someone says they are asexual, the first response from others is to deny or question it, it also sends the message that there is something wrong with us. I do not need to be fixed or cured, I am asexual and that's OK.

– Heather Runyan

Found on CNN
10 years ago

This is a permanent part of who I am, and I'm proud and confident about it. she understands what I'm saying but just can't comprehend how it's possible herself.

– Sandra Mellott

Found on CNN
10 years ago

If we rely only on intervention, we miss the mark, prevention is what we need, and this must be a systemic approach.

– Executive Director Ulester Douglas

Found on CNN
10 years ago

It's almost like a little competition for the number of likes, i think that's anxiety-ridden, because you get likes based on how many friends you have, and you have to keep posting things to get more friends and it's like a vicious circle.

– Diana Graber

Found on CNN
10 years ago

I think that's anxiety-ridden, because you get likes based on how many friends you have, and you have to keep posting things to get more friends and it's like a vicious circle.

– Diana Graber

Found on CNN
10 years ago

It's content by kids, but it's really meant to address topics of interest to their parents in many cases, the mission component is focused on teaching them digital literacy and citizenship while also allowing them to play with digital storytelling.

– Samantha Skey

Found on CNN
10 years ago

And I found out that I am kind of neurotic about some things, for example, when I text someone and I think that I might have made them upset because they didn't reply right away, I automatically assume that they got mad at me.

– Samantha Skey

Found on CNN
10 years ago

Mainstream media is portraying girls at younger ages who are mimicking the worst of obnoxious, stereotypical girl behavior ... rolling eyes, moving the hips around, being catty, so what girls are getting is that by 8 or 9, this is sort of a 'normal' way to act.

– Rosalind Wiseman

Found on CNN
10 years ago

We talk about role modeling but very rarely do adults look at their own behavior and say 'What am I doing?'.

– Rosalind Wiseman

Found on CNN
10 years ago

So trying out meanness is not something we can or should eradicate, it's normal to want to feel powerful and to exert influence on your environment. It's healthy. What is unhealthy is when the means by which a child does that is at the social expense of another.

– Michelle Anthony

Found on CNN
10 years ago

The more meanness they see being successful or rewarded in the home or in their environment, the more children will revert to those mean behaviors themselves when faced with challenging social situations.

– Michelle Anthony

Found on CNN
10 years ago

With girls, the more they watched, the more likely they were to perpetuate these behaviors so there's something about the nature of this type of behavior that girls feel comfortable perpetuating, i've argued, and many others have argued, that it's really about socialization, that as a culture, we tend to condone physical aggression with boys, and say, 'Oh that's just the way boys are' but with girls, we tell them not to do that because that's not what girls do.

– Nicole Martins

Found on CNN
10 years ago

Girls have essentially been taught at a young age to be sneaky about it and this is what we are seeing in the shows that we are watching.

– Nicole Martins

Found on CNN
10 years ago

People see these programs and they want that experience for themselves.

– Michelle Ercanbrack

Found on CNN
10 years ago

Start with what you know and build your tree online.

– Michelle Ercanbrack

Found on CNN
10 years ago

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